Jyutping keyboard is an implementation of soft keyboard for the Google Android mobile operation system. It provides an interface for the entering of traditional and simplified Chinese characters on Android devices, by means of Jyutping romanization (粵拼) and English-Chinese dictionary look up.

Option to show candidate selection history on the beginning of the candidate bar for fast picking up of frequent selection.

Learning of related words. Current selected candidate (child) and the left adjacent character (parent) will be stored. When the parent is inputted again, respective child will follow for fast selection.

Associated phrases (聯想詞).

Looking up of related words and associated phrases after the moving of text cursor.

English words suggestion with auto spacing.

Options of candidates navigation and selection by hardware direction keys and track ball.

Long press to toogle case of the pressed key for Normal key and Big key keyboard layouts.

Or download the APK and install manually, if Google Play is not available on your device.

How To Use

Install the Jyutping keyboard for Android from the Android Market.

Enable the keyboard in 'Settings' > 'Locale & text'.

Navigate to a text view and long press to bring up a context menu.

Tap the 'Select input method' option to show the enabled keyboards list.

Select 'Jyutping keyboard' to activate the keyboard.

Tap on the text view again to bring up the keyboard and start entering text.

Browse matched candidates by scrolling the candidate bar.

Tap the desired candidate to enter the character.

FAQ

Nothing happen after installation.The Jyutping keyboard is implemented as an input method add on for Android. It will not be shown in the programs list of the home screen. Follows the instructions at the 'How To Use' section above to start.

Can't find a specific Chinese character.Not all Chinese characters are mapped in the build in look up table. Try to type an Unicode HEX code prefixed with a 'u' to get the specified character. (e.g. type 'u7cb5' to get the character '粵')

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